STEVE CHANDLER'S FRIENDS

Steve and Amy Hardison

         Steve Hardison

(pictured in Venice with his lovely wife Amy) is my life coach which means for me that he is my business consultant because he has taught me to do business as if it were the very music I loved the most.

      The beautifully creative spiritual poet Rumi recommended, "Let the beauty we love be what we do."

      Which is why at a recent seminar I gave on "100 Ways to Create Wealth" I rolled a piano out and sang, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." My life in music.

      I've written about Steve Hardison (www.theultimatecoach.net) in many books. In 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself I said that I could write an entire book about Steve Hardison's remarkable work in coaching and consulting, and someday I just might. Examples of ways that he coached me to higher levels of performance are plentiful. But I think the greatest thing he has taught me is the value of coaching itself.

      Once you open yourself up to being coached, you begin to receive the same advantages enjoyed by great actors and athletes everywhere. When you open yourself up to coaching, you don't become weaker----you grow stronger. You become more responsible for changing yourself.

      In The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck writes, "The problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence...we must possess the willingness and the capacity to suffer continual self-examination."

      The best coaches show us how to examine ourselves. It takes courage to ask for coaching, but the rewards can be great. The best moments come when your coach helps you do something you have previously been afraid to do. When Hardison would recommend that I do something I was afraid to do I'd say, "I don't know if I could do that."

      "So don't be you," he would say. "If you can't do that, then be someone else. Be someone who could do it. Be Brando, be Bruce Lee, be anybody, I don't care, as long as you do it."  Steve's coaching contribution to my life is illustrated in these words by French philosopher Guillaume Apollinaire: Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them. And they flew.

     And now Steve Hardison finally, after all these years, actually has a website: www.theultimatecoach.net.

      And I believe these words by Rumi could also have been written by Hardison:

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

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    "Two Guys Read Moby-Dick"
by Steve Chandler and Terrence N. Hill

               Terrence Hill

     Terry worked in advertising – as a writer and creative director – for more than thirty years in Toronto , Detroit , Washington , New York , London and Paris . After quitting, Terry started writing for himself. He's written and published poetry, essays and short fiction. In 2005, he won the Playhouse on the Green (Bridgeport, CT) playwriting competition with his first play Hamlet – The Sequel , and published his first book – Two Guys Read Moby-Dick (co-written with Steve Chandler). It was a good year. The second book in the “Two Guys” series – Two Guys Read the Obituaries – was published in the fall of 2006.

     Friends for almost five decades, Steve Chandler and Terry Hill maintain a lively and often hilarious correspondence about reading Melville, people who've died, and pretty much anything else that strikes their interest. They are engagingly susceptible to digression.

Dr. Ludiker 
www.fredknipe.com

In the persona of "Dr. Ludiker", Fred Knipe has entertained audiences in all parts of the country at conventions and executive retreats and on video for RCA Records. His advice-filled comic talks written about the professions of those in attendance have delighted, among others, psychotherapists, lawyers, and broadcasters. His play, “Ludiker”, a comedy in two acts, debuted in 2003 and has been presented in Seattle and Minneapolis.

As sole writer of "The Desert Speaks", a natural history series broadcast in approximately 100 PBS markets, he has won four Emmys.

“He’s an insane combination of Jerry Seinfeld and Anthony Robbins.  If you hear Steve Chandler speak your life will be forever changed.”

- Fred Knipe 
Four-Time Emmy Award Winner/ PBS

"Steve Chandler's coaching has had a tremendous impact in my life. He was vital to my personal transformation from a man of ideas and dreams to a person of action and reality.” 

 - Radames Soto
Wall Street Journal

"Some books that can help you awaken and begin to change are ones by Steve Chandler, who I am reading lately. Great stuff. I'm becoming a fan of Steve Chandler."

- Joe Vitale
The Secret